And in fact Shakespeare is the best-selling poet in English of all time.
William Shakespeare is arguably the world's most famous poet and playwright.
The most widely read poet in the United States isn't Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson or Allen Ginsberg. It's Rumi, the Sunni Muslim born 810 years ago, whose six-volume Masnavi is considered a Persian-language masterpiece.
Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time following Shakespeare and Laozi. The Prophet (1923) has been translated into 110 languages. Such was the acclaim that Gibran was catapulted on to the global stage.
You may be surprised to learn that Alexander Pope comes in first, with nearly 15m references to "To Err is Human; to forgive, divine". It's an example of poetry becoming aphorism: how many people today would be able to name the poem it came from ("An Essay on Criticism")?
In Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Virgil refers to Homer as "Poet sovereign", king of all poets; in the preface to his translation of the Iliad, Alexander Pope acknowledges that Homer has always been considered the "greatest of poets".
William Shakespeare is listed as the best-selling fiction author of all time having sold between 2 – 4 billion copies.
Rumi is often described as the best-selling poet in the United States. He is typically referred to as a mystic, a saint, a Sufi, an enlightened man.
William Shakespeare ( bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
Poetry — one of the most important and time-honored forms of literature in the world — brought us greats like William Shakespeare and W.B. Yeats to ancient poets like Homer and Dante Alighieri to American treasures like Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson.
With more than 220,000 (100,000 shloka or couplets) verses and about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is the longest epic poem in the world.
New York: Bob Dylan, the surprise winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, became an icon of 1960s counterculture but his voice has reached widely and evocatively into the American past.
The phrase land of poets (Spanish: país de poetas) is commonly used to describe Chile because of its highly-valued poetry tradition. The phrase is most often associated with the fact that Chilean poets have twice obtained Nobel Prize in Literature for their works: Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and Pablo Neruda in 1971.
According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best-selling book of all time with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. Sales estimates for other printed religious texts include at least 800 million copies for the Qur'an and 190 million copies for the Book of Mormon.
1. J.K. Rowling. British author Joanne Rowling, also known as J.K. Rowling, is the richest author in the world with a net worth of $1 billion. Rowling is the author of the hit children's fantasy series "Harry Potter." The seven-volume series sold over 600 million copies and has been translated into 84 languages.
Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the "Father of English Poetry".
Most PhDs score around 110-120. So, in fact, it is likely that many poets would score between 100 and 125, with a few around 140, but not many.
The oldest known "poems" are anonymous - such as the Rig Vedas of Hinduism, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Song of the Weaver by an unknown Egyptian of the Second Dynasty.
Sonnets are among the most popular forms of poetry. They are fourteen lines long, and typically centre around the topic of love. The rhyme scheme varies depending on the type of sonnet used. Shakespearen sonnets have three quatrains and an ending couplet.
It is called The Chaos, and it was written by a Dutch writer called Gerard Nolst Trenité. The Chaos was written to highlight the irregularity of the English language. It includes around 800 examples of irregular spelling and pronunciation – it is not easy to read!